Tuesday, November 8, 2016

A Special Song of the Day Post, with Commentary - Dear Mr. President - P!nk, with Indigo Girls

Dear Mr. President,Come take a walk with meLet's pretend, we're just two people andYou're not better than meI'd like to ask you some questions if we could speak honestly

Well, after months and months we are finally here. The day of reckoning! This is undoubtedly one of the most momentous days in our 240 years of history, the world is watching, and the stakes couldn't be any higher.

What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street?Who do you pray to at night before you go to sleep?What do you feel when you look in the mirror?Are you proud?

Today's song was written about another president who took office after another very contentious election season 16 years ago. Back then, so many of us were angry. We'd felt cheated and we feared for our future. Unfortunately, those fears came to pass as 8 years of that poor choice brought us two wars, one plausibly acceptable, and the other completely unnecessary and based on lies. Thousands of people lost their lives as those in the inner circles enriched themselves off of the misery of others. We tortured our enemies in questionable violation of international law. Our economy was in shambles. The housing market crashed. Unemployment rates and the deficit soared as the stock market fell. We all suffered...but we survived.

How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?How do you dream when a mother hs no chance to say goodbye?How do you walk with your head held high?Can you even look me, in the eye, and tell me why?

It was 8 years ago now that we made history. We'd finally said enough as a nation and brought the other party back into power. A black man had been elected president. Hope was at hand. Unfortunately, whatever popularity this new President brought to the office was despised by many, either because he was a black man or simply from the 'other side.'

His integrity was questioned and every attempt he made at progress was met with unprecedented obstruction, which remains to this very day as the Supreme Court's power has been unconstitutionally and unprecentendtedly checked by the branch of government still controlled by the former president's party. The supposed outrage that's been spun over the past 8 years truly boggles my mind, as the previous 8 years of absolute misery seem to be an aberration to those on the other side. Perhaps there is a case of mass amnesia.

Dear Mr. President,Were you a lonely boy?How can you say, No child is left behind?We're not dumb and we're not blindThey're all sitting in your cellsAs you pave the road to hell

So now we have this...an anti-establishment billionaire vowing to "Make America Great Again." Does anyone out there really believe that we are no longer a great country? Please look me in the eye, and tell me why.

Of course, our choice is minimal. One out of two, well in reality four, people. But that in itself is a problem we must overcome. Yes, the establishment is crooked all over. Both sides of the aisle work first towards their own personal gain before helping us, the little people. It's been that way for a long, long time. The United States of America has become the United Corporations of America, where special interests gain favor to our detriment. Yes, we need an anti-establishment president. This isn't the one, though.

What kind of father would take his own daughter's rights away?And what kind of father mght hate his own daughter if she were gay?I can only imagine what the first lady has to sayYou've come a long way, from whiskey and cocaine
The climate of our politics has been dividing us for too many years now. Politicians tell outrageous lies simply for their own gain. And we believe them, yet our lives never seem to change that much for the better, no matter what they say. Right?

Today we all have a huge choice to make. For seemingly all of us, the choice is clear. Unfortunately, that choice isn't the same. While I see it as the choice between a seasoned, yet admittedly flawed candidate and a misogynistic, inexperienced and impulsive bully, others actually believe that the bully would do us better. Well in my eyes, that bully has cheated our country of thousands and thousands of dollars in taxes, gone bankrupt on quite a few occasions, and looks to divide us rather than unite us. He doesn't deserve to be president.

Let me tell you about hard workMinimum wage with a baby on the wayLet me tell you about hard workRebuilding your house after the bombs took them awayLet me tell you about hard workBuilding a bed out of a cardboard boxLet me tell you about hard work, hard work, hard workYou don't know nothing about hard work

Yeah, those 8 years were terrible! But they seem like nothing now compared to what could happen in the next 8. It truly makes me sad...and a little scared, too. Why do we spend so much time hating and being sheep rather than keeping informed, loving one another and really making the world and our country a better place? We should all be on the same side.

I only hope that today we get it right and we make it better. Maybe someday in the future we will find a true anti-establishment hero willing to lead us all into a brighter future. Until then, we need to make the right choice, or the next time could be even worse.

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